Final+Cut+and+iMovie

  Final Cut Pro and Imovie … Area of Interaction: Community and Service Significant Concept: An understand of the Design Cycle and movie software. Unit Question: How can my knowledge help others at home, in my community, and school?

Design Specifications: -Create 3 movies about the learner profile (TOPBRRICCK) -Your movie needs to be about 30 seconds long -In your movie, you need to explain one definition from the learner profile -I am not including a requirement for sound effects, music, or titles. However, I expect you to add them where they naturally fit! -Use different camera angles to make your videos look outstanding! - This is due March 1. -You will be graded on the Design Cycle and your project. You will receive an MYP and academic grade.

Investigate: Completely explain the problem and its relevance to your life. 1. Explain the problem. The problem is that we need to explain all of our knowledge about the IB TOP BRRICCK and make three videos about three different IB Top Brriccks and edit them so they can be placed on the school website. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">2. How does the problem apply to you? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The problem applies to us because we are currently in the MYP Program, (Pre-IB) and it's beneficial for us to have a good amount of background knowledge about these TOP BRRICCK learner profiles. Once we make these videos, we can gain more information about the specific ones we have chosen.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Critically investigate the problem and evaluate information from a variety of appropriate sources. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">3. Are you going to use Final Cut or iMovie? Explain why. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We have decided to use Final Cut because it's more advanced and the results of the videos will be much better. Also, this program is widely used in the movie and television industry so it provides us with more experience tha will be valuable later in our careers. Also, we practiced using Final Cut all week, so we feel we are more experienced using it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Design: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Create a range of possible designs, and evaluate all of them against the design specifications (requirements). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">4. What ideas do you have for your movie? List all of them!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">5. Do your ideas meet the requirements? Yes, our ideas meet the requirements because the three IB TOP BRRICCK profiles that chose have a pretty good video idea supporting them. The requirements just stated that we must create a video giving people knowledge about the IB TOP BRRICCK pyramid qualities and the ideas we listed seem pretty sufficient.
 * 1) Principled
 * Follow a bunch of rules
 * Listen to our parents
 * Value beliefs
 * Being principled in religion
 * Two of us follow basic rules and the other two don't. Two scenarios basically.
 * 1) Reflective
 * Giving ideas on how we can reflect
 * Showing the results of being reflective
 * Walking around and reflecting on daily activities
 * 1) Balance
 * We set up a sort of game show.
 * One person is a party animal
 * One person does too much homework
 * One person is balanced
 * So, basically, we sut up 3 scenarios and have people choose the answer.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Choose the best design and evaluate it fully against the design specifications (requirements). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">6. How did you choose your final ideas? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We chose the final idea by looking at our options and coming up with ideas. We then thought of pros and cons about each of the ideas. We chose Balanced to be our number one idea because we had found that it had many pros and was simply something that applied to our lives. I, personally, have an issue with maintaining a balanced life, so I really wanted to do this video in an effort to motivate myself in being more balanced. In addition, this was the idea that would could plan out the farthest. Although all of the TOPBRRICCK things are important, we thought that Balanced was one of the most important. This is because being Balanced affects so many different areas of your life and it is super important in means of how your life goes and how you feel throughout the whole thing. We wanted to do reflective because reflecting on your actions is extremely necessary, so that you can improve next time or point out all the things that worked. Finally, I really wanted to choose principled because, well... it's good to follow the rules. Oh and now that I think of it, I don't think you were asking for ^everything I just said above. OH CRAP. Well, now I'll answer that question (Btw, this is Simmyran). Okay so, we chose our final ideas through the process of taking everyone's thoughts and opinions and finalizing it then. We mainly respected everyone's ideas and went with what the majority wanted. Oh and a wonderful thought just came to my mind... Ms. Bradfield is so beautiful. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">7. Did you check to make sure your final ideas met all the requirements? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We checked to make sure that our final ideas met all of the requirements. Meeting the requirements are important because that way we are completing the assignment more thoroughly. Keeping in mind the importance of this, we checked the requirements and compared our idea against each of them. We thought about the way that each requirement would fit our idea and then decided that our idea nicely fit the design specifications. So to address the question, yes. We checked to make sure that our final ideas met the requirements which weren't too complex.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Plan: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Create a plan that contains a number of detailed, logical steps that describes how you will use your resources and time. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">8. How are you going to get this movie done by March 1? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We are going to make a schedule outlining what task we will complete each day. We will accurately follow this schedule, resulting in project completion on the assigned date. Day by day, we'll revamp our plan and add things so that we can successfully finish on time. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">9. When will you shoot your videos? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We will film on Thursday the 23rd and Monday the 27th. We'll probably end up filming more days because we're requierd to complete 3 videos. We might as well shoot them whenever we get time. Like, we do have a plan and all, but it'll probably just be a bit crazy to follow and all because Bradfield keeps changing the dates. -- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">10. When will you edit the videos? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We will edit the first video on the 24th, and the second and third videos on the 28th, 29th, and March 1st. If needed, the 28th may also be used for filming. As soon as we finish filming for a video, we're going to edit it, and then move onto the next video. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">11. What titles and effects are you going to add? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We will use titles to introduce our videos, and they may also be used in transitions. Also, we will use sound effects to highlight events in the videos, and use background music to add more depth. For reflective, we're planning on adding a catchy song using the voice-changing effects on Garage Band. So, basically, we'll just use basic effect and titles that make the videos more exciting. Speaking of exciting, I love Ms. Bradfield's attitude today. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">12. What camera angles are you going to use? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We will use multiple camera angles, probably 2 or 3, and will also use different lengths (zoom in, etc.) Also we're using different perspectives and angles so that the viewers can get a variety of videos. See, most people don't do that, but we decided to explore our resources take shots from various angles and zoom amounts. Although this was a bit of a hassle, we still shot our videos from a bunch of angles and stuff. Yeah, that's right. We're inquirers. Oh WOW. There ya go, we used yet another learner profile. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Evaluate the plan and justify any changes to your design. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">13. Do all of your videos meet all of the requirements? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Yes, all the requirements were met. Meeting the design specifications was not an issue for us. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">14. Do you need to change anything in the plan, because it doesn't meet all the requirements? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We changed some of our ideas because we found that they didn't meet the design specifications. None of our changes greatly affected our work load or plan in the long run. We figured that it was better to find out that our ideas didn't work within our plan rather then figuring it out after a big work amount had been gone through. This is why we very carefully thought about each and everyone of our ideas. Our plan met all the basic environments, so changing the plan was a little unnecessary, but we took a look at it

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Create: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Skillfully use appropriate techniques and equipment. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">15. Were you responsible? Explain. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We were responsible because we treated all of the equipment with care and even though it was not ours we treated them as if they were. We were quiet and respectful in the hallways and keeping in mind that other classes were still in session. We listened to directions so that when the time came we could use our newly learned skills to our advantage. We found great happiness in creating this whole project because we thought through each of our steps carefully in order to create a final product while still staying sane. Basically, we utilized Final Cut Pro to the fullest. Responsibility was not an issue for this project.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Follow your plan, justify changes in the plan, and create an appropriate product using your resources and time. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">16. Did you follow your plan? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We spent a lot of time coming up with a detailed plan and we followed each part of it to make sure that we could stay on schedule and be happy with our results. Be mainly did follow our plan because it was so amazing and easy to go along with. Plus, we made it so it was simple in an attempt to make our already difficult and unbalanced ) lives. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">17. Did you change your plan? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We had to change our plan a bit because we ran ahead of schedule so we had to move things forward. We didn't have to push anything back at all because we were always on or ahead of schedule. So, nope. The plan was not changed because it was so brilliant and all. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">18. Did you use your time wisely? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We used our time very wisely. We kept to our plan and made sure that we were going to finish on time. We worked on appropriate things every day and made sure that we got all parts of this assignment done and on time. I mean, yes. We did get distracted by photobooth and Youtube sometimes (actually, a lot. Haha) but that didn't get in the way of our project. Thank goodness. :D We remained principled throughout the process of this projecto. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">19. Did you make great videos? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Of course we made amazing videos. We showed many examples and explained our way through each of them. Whoever watches this video will now completely understand how to be balanced and how not to be. This is a great final product for our given assignment. We properly used all of the transitions and resources we had from Imovie and Final Cut Pro which resulted in the production of three remarkable videos. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">20. How many videos did you make? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We made 3 videos. Actually, no. We made 3 SPECTACULAR videos.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Evaluate: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Evaluate your product based on the design specifications, results of testing, and feedback from self and others. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">21. Did your movies meet all of the requirements? Explain. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Our movies met each and every one of the requirements. We did this by comparing all of our ideas to the requirements. We also had pros and cons and compared which videos better met the requirements. Through all of this hard work we came up with a finished product that was very satisfying and complete. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">22. What did your friends think about your movies? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f00088; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">Daniel thought our movies were really great because not only did they portray the learner profile in an amazing way, but they were also humorous. Peter said our videos really amplified the importance of the learner profiles. And finally, my family (Simran) thought our videos really taught them about the IB TOP BRRICCK learner profiles, and they got to know much more than they knew before. I decided to ask my family because family is far more important than friends right? Yes, I love my family. Oh and I love my teachers even more; Specifically Ms. Bradfield. Yeah, she's quite amazing. She also thought our videos were quite remarkable.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Attitude: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">You were consistently motivated and respectful. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">23. Were you always motivated and respectful? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #255223; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Yes, we were always motivated and respectful. We followed our filming and editing plan by working on either on the scheduled days. We met deadlines, and even finished some of the movies ahead of time. When filming, we were well behaved and didn't interrupt classes, and only filmed when necessary. Also, we didn't waste time when editing. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">24. Were you responsible with my cameras and computers? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #255223; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Explain. We were very responsible with the technology used when working. We were careful with the camera, and made sure not to drop it or use it inappropriately. Also, the computers were used how they should.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Unit Question: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">25. How can my knowledge help others at home, in my community, and school? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #255223; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">My knowledge can help others at home, in my community, and school because I can provide everyone with our information.

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">[|Balanced] <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Principaled is on Simran's Wikispace <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Reflective is on Sam's Wikispace <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">